IBM

I was at IBM Security. People expect me to denigrate the place since I got laid off, but I won't. There's a lot of opportunity here to grow, but you have to grab it yourself out of the opportunities provided.

Sometimes dev schedules are glacially slow, but you're coordinating with a ton of other things going on. Some of the smartest people I've met worked here and were more than happy to share their skills and insights.

I really don't care for the Elon-Musky stance of senior management, but that's only about 4 months old and may dissipate.

There's IBM bureaucracy abounding, but that's to be expected.

There's a claim of a lot of ability to switch up what you're doing, but as it turns out, internal transfers can be almost impossible depending on the urgency of the destination department.

I came to IBM from an acquisition, as almost everybody these days does.

The end result is a lot of cultures, sometimes competing, and sometimes competing with the IBM ideals as stated.